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Clay Travis
Welcome in Wednesday Edition Clay and Buck. We appreciate all of you and we have got breaking news across a series of locations around the world. In particular, President Trump is in Davos, and he spoke earlier today and said a great deal about a huge variety of topics at that event. Also last night, Buck, as I was getting ready to go to bed, they had to turn around to Air Force One and, and switch to a different plane to fly to Davos. I know that it doesn't get talked about very much, but it is pretty extraordinary that President Trump flew. Flew all night to Switzerland, landed, and now is going to spend a full day doing a ton of serious and intense representation of the United States on the global stage. For those of you who have taken overnight flights, and people say, oh, well, he's got a. He's got a bed. He can just. I mean, he's working most of the time, and no, he's not actually sleeping very much, and he's rolling straight in and nailing all of these things. So let's start with this. And it's probably the most significant aspect of all the things that he said. Uh, he has said, I will not use force to take Greenland, as we told you was the case. But the media had been losing their mind over, oh, my God, Trump's going to invade Greenland and we're going to have a war. And here's cut five.
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Donald Trump
We never asked for anything and we never got anything. We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won't do that. Okay, now everyone's saying, oh, good. That's probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force. I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back to Denmark. Not long ago, after we defeated the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians and others In World War II, we gave it back to them.
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Clay Travis
Okay, Buck, Last night I was doing reading on the history of. Of, you know, American expansion, as one does, and a buddy of mine who was also a Virgin Islands lawyer, he sent me this article that was really interesting about the acquisition. Yes.
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Buck Sexton
I was going to say, two Virgin Islands lawyers walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a great joke.
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Clay Travis
There's not. There's not a lot of us. But he sent me an article, and it was a good read. And I've been talking about the fact that we acquired the US Virgin Islands in 1917 paid $25 million in gold and bought it from the Dutch. Here is an article about that negotiation. Lansing this is highlighted insinuated. This is the I believe the Secretary of State back in the day. Lansing in 1917 insinuated that if Denmark didn't sell the US the islands, it just might go and seize them to prevent Germany from getting to them. It was a bullying tactic and it worked. Eager to prevent a US Military attack, Denmark was currently a neutral party in World War I. Denmark negotiated a treaty with the U.S. that President Wilson signed in 1917. On March 31, 1917, Denmark formally transferred governance over the islands to the U.S. and the U.S. reciprocated by paying Denmark $25 million in gold coin. What is old can be new again. Now we're going to get into a bunch of what Trump said, but I did think it was intriguing that 100 years ago one of the negotiation tactics involved in the United States taking control of the Virgin Islands was if you don't sell it, we're just going to take it might. Throughout history, Buck has often made right. Trump understands this, and I think it's a sign of how significant his pursuit of Greenland has become, that of all the things that he said, I think it is receiving the most consequential attention surrounding the Greenland decision. Did that stand out to you the most in terms of newsworthy statements of the moment to you, or was there other things that stood out in particular there?
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Buck Sexton
There are a few. A few funny aspects of this. One is you could really feel the exhale from so many of the assembled.
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Clay Travis
Eurocrats in that room.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, you mean he's not actually going to just seize it by force? No, dude, he's not going to seize your island with the Marines. We're not going to be sending F35s in the sky and blowing up Greenland air defenses. We're not going to make them throw harpoons at our tanks like, it's fine. Ok, we're not going to do that. And just the fact that there was real, apparently real concern as it was reported among the assembled, that Trump is just going to be like, it's mine, I'm taking it. So that's, that's one aspect of it. There's also Clay, something else because I've been looking into this as well. Now, I am not licensed to practice law in the US Virgin Islands, but I am good at deep dive Internet research. So I was wondering, I was like, where else does the United States have something that is a analogous arrangement or.
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Clay Travis
Situation, Territory A territory, I mean is the official legal term.
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Buck Sexton
Well, but there's something else actually. You, you, you, you jump in and yes, that's part one, part two. We have territories like the Virgin Islands. We also have something that I, I honestly had not heard of before, which is a voluntary compact, essentially. And now we have this with Micronesia. So that, that, that is, that is similar here. It's called a compact of free association and we have this with a number of islands in the Pacific. Now it gives us defense, basically. It gives us the right to provide their defense, but we get basing rights. We also have free total control over their waterways for strategic military purposes and their air, but we totally defend them. They visa free migration to the U.S. a lot of U.S. federal assistance given to them, economic assistance for education, health, infrastructure. But if they decided they don't like the situation, they can end it. This requires just vote of, this is not a 2/3 Senate treaty situation. A compact of free association would just be a majority in the Congress, a majority in the House, in the Senate, signed by the President. So it's a lot easier to do now. It's not as, it's not as enduring. But I'm just saying we already have this with thousands of little islands in the Pacific where we say, look, we're going to protect you, we're going to hook you up with some stuff, but if we need to like build an air base somewhere, we're all good, right? Like we have control.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. Look, some of the Danes would argue, based on the World War II relationship that we had with Greenland, that we have access to Greenland to protect for purposes of military relief related issues. That's why I think this is actually twofold, Buck. And I think Trump is being a little bit sneaky on this. He's primarily selling that we need Greenland for military reasons. And I do think there's a lot of legitimacy for that. But the secondary part is he wants to control the long range future of Greenland as the minerals there are potentially able to be mined. So I think he's trying. And again, a lot of times this happens with any of you who've dealt with real estate developers, there can be a mutuality of goal. And so the lead is, oh, we need this for military purposes and it gets a lot of attention. But if we have the ability to defend Greenland in a way that is significant already. The secondary and maybe primary in many ways aspect of this, Buck, is I really do think that he wants to have complete title to Greenland so that the United States has the ability to profit off of it in the years ahead. And, and that is why I think the territory example, like the US Virgin Islands, Guam, that to me is where we would wedge Greenland in if I were trying to project how it should happen.
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Buck Sexton
It also, though, wouldn't be Trump if he didn't take this opportunity, like the right wing uncle at Thanksgiving, to just lay down the facts of life a little bit for some of the commies sitting around and some of the. The whiny libs, the snowflakes, as we used to call them a decade or so ago. Here he is telling all those Europeans, you know it's coming without us. You'd be speaking German and Japanese. Play for.
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Donald Trump
This in World War II when Denmark fell to Germany after just six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland. So the United States was then compelled. We did it. We felt an obligation to do it, to send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory. And hold it we did, at great cost and expense. They didn't have a chance of getting on it and they tried. Denmark knows that. We literally set up bases on Greenland for Denmark. We fought for Denmark. We weren't fighting for anyone else. We were fighting to save it for Denmark. Big beautiful piece of ice. It's hard to call it land, it's a big piece of ice. But we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in our hemisphere. So we did it for ourselves also. And then after the war, which we won, we won it big. Without us right now, you'd all be speaking German and a little Japanese. Perhaps after the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it. But we gave it back. But how ungrateful are they now?
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Buck Sexton
Okay, so by the way, there's a great podcast opportunity. Trump does history. So then we crush the Nazis. Huge crushing of the evil, evil, bad Nazis. And the Japanese, very bad, too. The Japanese. Good cars in the 80s. Bad World War II Japanese. Would you not listen to Trump Does History as a podcast? It'd be amazing. Only extemporaneous allowed.
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Clay Travis
Though it is great, too, for him to go in front of that entire European community and remind them that the only reason they have freedom and the only reason that they're not speaking German and perhaps a little Japanese, which is a just a great aside, the way to the way that Trump delivered it. I do think when you break all of this down, I'm going to make a prediction, Buck. I think we're going to get Greenland. I just, I Don't know exactly what the timeframe is going to be, but I think it's going to fit some form of territorial, like the Virgin Islands, like Guam, some form of construct like that. I think it'll be more substantial than the agreement you're talking about, Buck. Now, they may argue, for purposes of trying to look like they are just completely relenting to Trump. They may say, well, this is just a mutual. He's not getting anything that he wants. Right. Like there could be an element of the way the media plays it. But I think Trump wants, you know, free and clear title of Greenland and the ability to develop its resources for the next hundreds of years for the United States. I think he's going to get it and I think it may lead to us having to pay off all of the 57,000 of the people who live in Greenland. Right. It's not going to be cheap and we're not going to seize it. To your point, with boots on the ground, there's not going to be paratroopers coming into Greenland. But I do think that there's going to be some form of agreement reached.
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Buck Sexton
You know what this really means. We're heading toward Clay and Buck's excellent Greenland adventure. I'm already doing the research. It's happening. I'm working on my dog sledding skills. I'm going to get it all going. We're going to be ready for Greenland, hopefully by this summer. We're going to get this thing in motion.
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Clay Travis
Look, I think there is a, an element of, of, of capitulation that's already in place. Even Naito is saying in the UN and all these other different groups, I think they're going to have to roll over and Trump's going to dominate them. It just feels inevitable to me that that is where we are headed. And part of this, we were just talking about the energy Buck that Trump has flies overnight. They have to turn Air Force One around, bring it back to Andrews Air Force Base, change the planes, and yet he's right now going full speed, basically no sleep, delivering and leading on the global stage. Guy's got good energy and if you'd like a little bit better energy in your life, that's where chalk can come in handy. Choq.com is the website. Chalk get hooked up right now and when you do, you will be able to just have way more vim, bigger vitality than you otherwise do. All natural supplements can increase your testosterone by up to 20% in just a few months time. If Your resolution for 20, 26 was to have more energy, be more productive. That is what you need Chalk for. Choq Use my name Clay when you sign up and you will get a great, incredible phenomenal offer as well, which is a $99 bag of chalk lit powder. With that first delivery. Go check it out for yourself. Put more energy back into your life. Be like Trump c h o q.com clay that's chalk.com my name c l A Y Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Mic drops that never sounded so good. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
Listening to Trump's comments at Davos and we're going to break down more of this it's not just Greenland stuff he talked about. He talked about Venezuela, crime in California, homes in America, building homes, the US economy. It was really just a trumpathon he got. He did the usual Trump stuff, hour and 20 minutes or something. The speech was. He went on for a bit. We'll bring you the highlights of it because it touches on a lot of the most important things here on the show. Something that would not go in the category of most important things on the show, but I did because we like to keep you entertained. Think it was worth noting is that Trump, the leader of the free world, noted that Emmanuel Macron of France, he was wearing sunglasses at the summit. And here is what Trump said.
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Donald Trump
So when I called up Emmanuel Macron, I watched him yesterday with those beautiful sunglasses. What the hell happened?
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Buck Sexton
Beautiful sunglasses. What the hell? Now there were a lot of comments about Brigitte Macron having quite a left hook, perhaps much more than one would expect for reasons that one could surmise on their own. But I'm just putting out there that there are people that think these things. I'm not saying Clay. I think these things. I am merely saying.
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Clay Travis
But they had the video of her shoving him as well. Like punt. Kind of grappling him in some way on the face right as he was trying to come off the French plane. So in addition, maybe having a meat hook of. Of a right or a left, there's also a video of her kind of shoving him around.
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Buck Sexton
Look, maybe. Maybe Emmanuel got a little mouthy and Brigitte had to tune him up a little bit. You know, it happens. It happens. But apparently he had, like, a burst. Burst blood vessel or something in the eye.
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Clay Travis
He's fine.
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Buck Sexton
It's minor. It's a cosmetic thing. But it's funny because I told Clay we're talking about this, and I said, I think I'd just go. Instead of being indoor sunglasses guy, I would go, eye patch. And Clay just started ripping on me for this one.
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Clay Travis
I. I don't want to. And I don't want to go after the people with eye patches in our. Our audience, because you're probably quite adept at sword fights and piracy. But. But I actually think the eye patch is more noticeable than the sunglasses. Like, I think.
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Buck Sexton
But everyone assumes that it's a medical if you have an eye patch on. Everyone assumes it's a medical if you're wearing sunglasses. People are like, what do you think you're like some cool guy? You. You know, you. You play. You play in, you know, the. The trombone indoors by your.
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Clay Travis
A jazz.
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Buck Sexton
Jazz guy. What's going on?
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Clay Travis
It has to be so egregious to wear sunglasses indoors like that because no one pays any attention to what you say because you are drawing your attention to yourself. And this is One thing you're 100% right about. On. They definitely did this with Biden because it made him look less old and you didn't notice as much. His wondering eyes. Some of you out there may have occasionally been hungover and maybe decided to wear sunglasses, hoping nobody would notice. Something's up there.
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Buck Sexton
Something's up, indeed. Got a little mouthy with Brigitte. I think Brigitte was like, may not. Monsieur. All right. An FBI study released in 2024 confirms an average of two break ins every minute nationwide. Would you know what to do if this happened to you? Now's a good time to secure your home and prepare yourself with the Sabre home defense launcher. Powerful protection designed to help keep you safe. Clay and I both have them.
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck SEXTON SHOW President Trump is in Davos. He made a great deal of news earlier today speaking in Europe. We talked about the decision on Greenland and how that's going to play out. I thought that was clearly the most newsworthy aspect of his address, but his comments on Minnesota. And we're going to talk with Michelle Tafoya, who has announced that she is going to be running for the Senate as a Republican in Minnesota. That happened earlier this morning. She's going to join us at the top of the third hour. But the protests in Minneapolis continue. And here is Trump saying the situation in Minnesota is about culture and what happens when you embrace the wrong cultures.
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Donald Trump
Cut one the situation in Minnesota reminds us that the west cannot mass import foreign cultures which have failed to ever build a successful society of their own. I mean, we're taking people from Somalia and Somalia is a failed it's not a nation, got no government, got no police, got no military, got no nothing. And then we have this fake congressperson who they just reported is worth $30 million. You believe this Ilhan Omar talking about the Constitution it provides me. She comes from a country that's not a country and she's telling us how to run America, not going to get away with it much longer, let me tell you.
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Clay Travis
Okay, Buck, so the older I get as I move into squarely into unk status, culture is everything. I think the culture you create in your family, the culture you create in your business, in your state, in your cities and your church and your communities, the culture that you create dictates success across the board. And the culture that Minnesota embraced was one of piracy from Somalia. Is it any surprise at all that Somali pirates effectively pirated the Minnesota culture there? And it's a very different culture between frankly, a lot of the Scandinavian countries that overwhelmingly make up Minnesotans and the Somalis.
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Buck Sexton
Well, it also, though, Clay, it goes right into a much longer and broader narrative of these recent arrivals into the country who are taking advantage of the American people. This is something that I think is particularly galling. This really rightly upsets all Americans we saw this, for example, with the abuse of our asylum system. We saw this with people showing up at the border with children that weren't even theirs because they knew if they claimed that they were their kids, they would be able to be released in the American interior, never to be, you know, seen again. At least that was the plan, so that they would just evade all of our immigration systems. When you're talking about people who are not only going on welfare, which I think you could argue for any immigrant feels a bit ungrateful, but beyond that, to defraud the incredible kindness of the American people and really the American taxpayer, that's just too much. We saw this also in New York City, where you have all these migrants who show up and they enter the country illegally. They lie about how they're asylum seekers, or rather their asylum stories are either made up or there's no way they're actually deserving of asylum. And then they're getting EBT cards and they're getting free housing or the free hotel rooms and all this stuff. We didn't sign up for that. Like, we, the American people, didn't want this. And then when you have this Somali situation, you would think that these should be people. I mean, and I'll speak to this in the context Clay of Florida, and, you know, this is a generalization. But one thing about people who have tasted tyranny, of real tyranny abroad, in particularly from communism, is they come here and they often have a real love of this place. And I've experienced this with the Cuban. Cuban American population in Miami, Venezuelans, many of them who have come here, they hate socialism, they hate communism. They love this country. They wish their country hadn't been ruined by Maduro and Chavez. They appreciate it here. You don't get that sense from Ilhan Omar's speeches as a refugee in this country. You certainly don't get that sense from the Somali community in Minneapolis, which instead of expressing their outrage that this is happening among them, they immediately go into this sort of defensive posture of, how dare you? How dare you ask these questions? Look at us like, well, you're ripping us off. Yeah. And it's illegal, and we're allowed to be upset about this. Aren't you. Aren't you embarrassed by this? Shouldn't the Somali community, you know, the.
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Clay Travis
Clay.
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Buck Sexton
We're supposed to be embarrassed about the, you know, the Apache people losing their land 200 years ago with these.
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Clay Travis
But.
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Buck Sexton
But the Somali community in Minneapolis, there's no sense of embarrassment that they're involved in $9 billion is estimated of fraud. What's going on?
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Clay Travis
Yeah, I think that's well said. I also think it goes to the larger cultural question. I believe this Number is correct. 15.6% of the United States population right now is not born in the United States. 15.6%. That's the highest in any of our lives. I believe that's basically the highest since all the way back to when America wasn't a sea to shining sea country. Hardly 1880s maybe was a time when we would have had a similar non native born population. Any of you know, who have expanded companies, who've expanded churches, who have expanded organizations. One of the hardest things to do when you're maintaining a culture is grow because the people who are there that have established the culture suddenly have a less significant impact in the culture going forward and you lose touch with what made you successful in the past. To me that's what we did with immigration and the immigration that I've always bought into. Buck, I like your analogy of Cubans, Venezuelans, people who have truly experienced awfulness in their countries and come here and are so immensely grateful for the fabric of this nation. But what I've always wanted is us to take the intellectual first round draft picks of the world. People who are highly skilled and are going to be able to take advantage of the frameworks that we have created to build better businesses, to build better companies, to build a better America. The numbers on Somalis that stand out to me is 80% of them on welfare and multigenerational welfare. Why in the world. And you talked about this, it's technically illegal to do this, but we keep doing it. How in the world are we able to justify to American taxpayers bringing in people from foreign countries and immediately giving them American taxpayer dollars? It should be a non starter period.
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Buck Sexton
Well, think about the attitude you had from Kara Swisher. We played the clip a few days ago on the show of, you know, you billionaires in California, you're ungrateful pieces of bleep because you don't want to go from having the highest taxes in the country to even higher taxes in the form of really a wealth confiscation act, which is what it is. Does anyone think that there isn't a lot of fraud going on in California too, but they don't want to deal with that. Does anyone think the dollars being spent in California are efficient and are going to things that make the lives of Californians better? But they never want to deal with accolade. They don't want to deal with fraud. Democrats don't want to deal with efficiency. They don't want to deal with because they like people getting paid by the state because it's other people's money. At least that's what you're led to believe. And then they distribute it to their friends. Then they distribute it. You know, this is why the teachers unions and public school teachers all across the country in these blue states in particular are rock solid for Democrats, why bureaucrats are rock solid for Democrats. I mean, if you look up the city of Chicago and how it's paying for, well, the percentage of its budget that goes to paying six figure retirement packages for former city employees, it would blow your mind. This stuff is unsustainable.
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Clay Travis
It would be one thing if our government was fantastically well run. I actually will give credit. Probably didn't expect me to give a shout out to him. I think I've mentioned it on the show once or twice before. Phil Mickelson, who lives in California now said the government in California basically takes half my money and we get back really poor resources as a result. He compared it with Elon Musk because there's been a fight with billionaires. Said every time I give a dollar to Elon Musk, I get back $15. Who better uses the capital of Phil Mickelson, who was fortunate, former golfer or still golfer, but successful. I've made a lot of money. The state of California or investors in California. Who would you rather give your money to? It's just a no brainer. It's. It's one thing, if they were super efficient, maybe you would feel better about it. Our government weighs so much money. I can spend it better. You can spend it better. All of you can.
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Buck Sexton
Okay, so I've got, I've got some great numbers for you here. I know we don't talk about Chicago except in the context of crime usually on this show and how it has a terrible mayor amongst give credit where it's due. Chicago in the worst mayor sweepstakes I think is a top five, which is pretty impressive. I think they have a top five worst mayor in the country. You know, I think he's certainly up there and is only doing things to make it worse. But I looked this up. Gotta love Grok, man. Grok is like such a little assistant all the time. I looked this up and the city of Chicago has 80%, 80% of property tax revenue going toward city pensions. 40% of all appropriations of all the money that the city of Chicago takes in, 40% goes to pensions. It's Crazy. That is completely outrageous. And they keep, what do you think they keep doing in Chicago? Just like they do in this, they keep raising property taxes. Gotta get more money. Gotta get. Because the Democrats get elected by getting these public sector unions to show up and vote for them.
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Clay Travis
And here is the problem with that buck. It's harder and harder to raise money because more and more people are leaving Chicago because they're charging more and more.
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Buck Sexton
Money and they just squeeze harder the most money.
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Clay Travis
I mean, you got a neighbor now down in Miami, Ken Griffin, probably the most successful private equity guy in all of Chicago, finally just said, I can't deal with this anymore. It's not safe. And my guys are getting taxed to the hilt. And now he's building, what's it like, a billion dollar complex. I mean, it's a crazy amount that he is building for his new headquarters, Citadel, I believe. I'm not mistaken in Miami. This is a direct tangible result of failed economic choices. President Trump, by the way, speaking again at a CEO reception and dinner, will monitor that in Davos, Switzerland. To the extent that he is making still more news as he continues on his on his worldwide tour now evening in Europe and there's a dinner event that he is speaking at. So we will break that down for you. I want to tell you prize picks, I got a pick for you. Uh, we were in the prize pick suite, uh, with the prize picks guys at the Hard Rock Stadium, uh, for the big game between Indiana and Miami on Monday night, National title game. These guys have built a Great business. All 50 states. You can play along. If you're going to be watching the NFC and the AFC championship games on Sunday, as many of you are, including me, because I think I'm going to be snowed in right now. If you go to prize picks, use code Clay. Clay, you get $50 deposited in your account when you play. $5 all 50 states. Again, pricepix.com code clay 2.75x this pays out. We're rooting for points, touchdown passes in particular. Sam Darnold more than one and a half touchdown passes and Matthew stafford More than one and a half touchdown passes. NFC championship game. Prizepix.com you get $50 in your account deposited when you play along. That's prizepix.com code clay prizepix.com code Clay 2.75x do it today. Want to be in the know when you're on the go the Team 47 podcast. Drop highlights from the week. Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Buck podcast feed. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. So we got Trump now speaking at the CEO reception dinner down at, down at Ages down the street at Davos. But you know, he's doing his Trump thing and he's talking to everybody about the situation of, well, what he hopes will be the very changed situation of Greenland. Let's get a couple talkbacks here. A a Bill in New Jersey, a W O R listener. Let's hear it.
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Caller
Very first leg, chief. Sharks come cruising. So we formed ourselves into tight groups, you know, kind of like old squares in a battle like you see in a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was shark comes to the nearest man, that money start pounding and hollering and screaming. Sometimes the shark go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Despite all the pounding and the hollering, they all come in and they rip you to pieces.
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Clay Travis
This.
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Caller
So 1100 men went in the war. 316 men come out. The sharks took the rest. June 29th, 1945.
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Clay Travis
Oh, wait, is that we mixed. I think we mixed up. We wanted a, a first. So I think we stepped on the back end joke there. The joke was Bill in New Jersey. Yesterday as we finished the show, I said I'm increasingly afraid that I would get eaten by a shark. And, and there the, and I said usually people swimming in big groups are safe. And Bill in New Jersey AA said this.
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Donald Trump
Clay, Buck, Bill in New Jersey. People swimming in big groups, huh? Yeah. Safe, huh? Yeah. Tell that to the guys from the Indianapolis.
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Clay Travis
All right. And then we had Quint from Jaws who told this, which we just heard.
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Buck Sexton
Yes. Which is I think one of the best parts, maybe the most memorable part in some ways of the whole movie. He absolutely crushes it Know, he's talking about the. He's like, we delivered the bomb. You know, he gets into all that stuff. I was an amazing, amazing story. But, yeah, it turns out that swimming in a big group. Well, to be fair, I think it. You probably are safer than a solo because sharks are always opportunistic hunters.
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Clay Travis
Correct.
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Buck Sexton
So, you know, it's like, you're probably in a better shape. But you see, there's been a few more. Just recently, some kid jumped in the water in Sydney Harbor. Fortunately, he's. He's basically. He's brain dead now. A bull shark, a bull shark took off both of his legs, like, almost on impact in the water. So he must have. There must have been a big bull shark right there. He jumped in the water with the splash. So anyway, I know everyone's like, there's only, you know, seven shark attacks in the world, but I don't know. I mean, there's sharks out there. I'm just saying there's sharks out there. It could be very, very, you know, tragic situation if things go wrong.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. Right after we got back from the Virgin Islands, a. It doesn't ever happen in the Virgin Islands. A woman got attacked. And this all started with my take on. My concern is that I'm like the wounded seal. You have all these excellent swimmers on Escape from Alcatraz, and they're way out into the future. And then I am left behind looking like the easy prey. And that's my concern.
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Buck Sexton
Right. If it's you and Riley Gaines and those like her in the water, Clay, they don't have to outswim the great white, they just have to outswim Clay.
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Clay Travis
That's right.
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Buck Sexton
Pretty easy, which I don't think that'd.
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Clay Travis
Be too hard for them. So, unfortunately, I think that's the danger here. What do you got for us? Top of the next hour, Buck. We got a bunch of stuff going on out there. In addition to Davos, as we said, President Trump continues to speak live. Right now there's.
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Buck Sexton
I also want to get into Minneapolis and talk about the latest from the front lines of that insanity, because there's still an effort by the left leftist shock troops to create this as some kind of a natural thing. I do think it's losing some ground. It is very cold up there. I mean, it's not as snowy as Nashville is going to be this weekend, Clay, but Minneapolis is a tough place to be parked outside for hours on the street just hoping and hoping that you're going to stop ice from doing their jobs.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. Look, I am terrified of the White Death sweeping closer and closer to my city. Nashville is done. Pray for us. We'll be back. Next.
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